[srnm]

Reading the NYT with the new AIR-based reader is a pleasure. The fluid layout, typography, and especially the no-lag browsing, changes the experience to the point that I find myself starting up the reader every day -- and the NYT was not my source of news before the new reader.

There are many technology-oriented and societal reasons to prefer an "open" web. The fact is that the AIR-reader delivers today what is likely to appear in browsers over the next couple of years.

[pj]

I think the point is that Adobe Air creates a "closed" web. Standards are open.